Writing

5-6-10 By:Alex Memory Book Fun Today you are about to enter memory book fun. Here are some examples: first day of school, halloween party, mini society, study buddys, hawaiian csap party, and chautaqua park. those are the names of are memory book pages. We do a memory book so that in the future we can look back and see what fun things we did and because we can show are kids what they might do. Second, we are working on new memory book pages ( what ever we want to write.) With the new pages we get to write any fun event that we want. we also get the choice to type it or write it. Last of all we are going to have conferences. This isn't just another parent techer conference, it actually a celabration for the end of 4th grade! Getting ready for the conferences was hard, can you imagine your desk piled high with green, red, and black binders and yellow and blue notebooks along with folders, books, and a hole bunch of pencils. We do these conferences to show are parents what we do every day( and they got to try some mountain math.) Also to show well we growed with math, reading, s.s, science, and writing. All in all that is a lot of memory book fun.

4-16 10 By: Riley Simco Amazing, Wonderfull Writing In writing we are learnig persuasive writing. Persuasive writing can help us in life so we can write persuasiveletters to friends and family. We are learnig how to identify points of veiw. So latter in life we can here sombodys point of veiw. Stating opinons islike saying a idea. So wecan have great ideas latter in life. Thank you ! Seeyou next week in writing

02-26-10 Practice Makes Perfect By:__Ben & Bella__ This week in writing, we have been writing, editing, and publishing our cinquain poems. You might want to know what a cinquian poem is. It's a poem that follows a syllable pattern. The pattern is 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. We also have been practicing for CSAP which starts next week. This will help us prepare for real CSAP. This is what we have been doing in writing.

By: Parker and Riley Super Writing In our classroom we have learned and still learning about poems. The first poem is called a Haiku. The pattern of it is 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. We did a rough draft in our writers notebook. Then typed our final copy on the computer. After,we learned the cinquain poem. The syllables of it goes 2 syllables, 4 syllables, 6 syllables, 8 syllables then 2 syllables and then typed it for a published piece.

2-5-10 Writing,Rhyming,Format, Dylan,logon Hello peaple of the world you have reached http://Brandt-classroom.wikispaces.com if you are looking for writing you are here. This week in writing we are learning how to write a poem.We can rhyme and change our format,mine looks like a tree. Logans looks like a book. We are using onomatopoeia= a sound word used in writing like buzz! See you next time at this network. BYE!!!

1-15-10 Bella, Ben, & Logan Monsoon of Words In writing we have been working on our snowpeople. This is when we write a paragraph about how we feel about snow. We also have been doing functional writing. This is when we write directions about how to do something. Doing all this can help us be better writers. To sum up, this is what we have been doing in writing.

December 11, 2009 The W in Writing By Anna and Jayden The W in writing really came out when we started summarizing articles into 4-5 sentences. We have been using transition and conclusion words to help us. The conclusion words help us in the wrap up of the summary. The order of the summary goes like this: topic sentence,details,and wrap up. The W in writing will help us write summaries in the future. So far, the W in writing has taught us a lot.

December 4,2009 Souper Awesome Writing Writen by:Jayden & Logan We have been working on revising our idiom posters. We actually read idioms and drew what we thought the idioms look liked. We finished are cuplets w/mrs Swenson. We finished rivising our perfact parigraphs. We have almost finished our idioms. Writing is one of the best subjects in our school.

November 20,2009 e Writing Mystery Madness by:Jayden and Erin If you're on the writing page you're looking in a good spot. We have been working on revising our personal narratives. They look fanciful so far. This will help es with editing and revising when we get older. Well, if you're done reading this page, you're ready to *click, click* on a diffrent subject. See you!! (It is good to have writing in our lives.)

November 5, 2009 Memory Nets Written By: Ben & Dylan In the beginning of the week, we were working on our perrsonal narritives. When we were working on them, we were adding sensory details. We were also working with the netbooks. (They are small laptops.) We are creating couplets. For example: We go together like sun & moon. And we go together like fork & spoon. See you next time, from your favorite wiki writers; Ben & Dylan!

October 30,2009 A Whirlwind of Writing Written by: Jayden and Bella Writing has been the exelent wonder of its dreams. We have been working on personal narritives. A personal narritives is a story about an authors real life. Adding sensory detials makes our writing even better. we also have been reading personal nairitives bookes to give us more ideas. Writing is as wonderful as a new T.V show!

October 9,2009 A Atomic Bomb Of Learning Written by:Alex and QUINN We are in a blast of learning as we revise our stories. We are working on how to use sensory words and fix over used words.Also we are learning how to fix beginning and endings. We are doing this to help us become a writer when we grow up. This is why we are in the atomic bomb of learning.

October 2,2009 A Sparkle in Writing Written by:Sophia,Logan,Zach In writing we made lists like "10 people I want to meet" .It helped us generate ideas from our mind. We read non-fiction writing that was called __Everthing Reptile__. After we read this,we chose our oun non-fiction topic and asked our oun questions. At last we got to make stories off the lists.

September 25, 2009 Patterns in Writing Written by: Riley and Parker This week we learned about Shel Silverstein and how he rhymes in his poems. This helps us learn about him as a poet. Also we learned how to write and talk like an animal using "I", me", and "myself". We read __Desert Voices__, by Byrd Baylor to help us. We also read a book called __Everything Reptile__. Its chapter titles were questions that kids had asked the author when she was visiting that school. One of the chapter titles was "Can snakes kill themselves with their own poison?" It helped us learn about non-fiction writing.

September 18, 2009 Writing Written by: Olive and Kate We are learning that books give us ideas for writing. For example, this week we read ABC books and some pieces of poetry that had patterns. Then we practiced that pattern in our own writing. This activity helped us with our study buddy's abc book.

September 11, 2009 Writing Mania Written by: Anna and Shea The room was like a trampoline of writing ideas. Some of them were free writing and some were quick writes. Between all of the questions buzzing about, there was still room in our notebooks for memories to write about. Our writing notebooks have been like volcanoes exploding! We are feeling so much joy in writing!

September 4, 2009 Unusual Questions Written by: Ellyse and Gage The room was pounding with writers having fun coming up with unusual questions. Some of the unusual questions were “How many teeth do you have?” and “Would you rather be a bird or a lion?” These questions will help us come up with writing ideas for the future. We are all learning how to write, write, write!

An Earthquake of Words

Written by: Ryan and Erin

In writing there has been a buzz of bees making a pleasure of postcards for Mrs. Brandt about our sizzling summer. We have also been buzzin' about our sparkling, paper light bulbs to help us turn on our brains